In this blog, author Collin Derrig discusses the Trump Administration’s January 2025 memorandum rescinding protections from immigration enforcement activities in “sensitive locations” such as houses of worship. The blog focuses on the constitutionality of the policy as applied to houses of worship under the First Amendment right to freedom of expressive association.
New on the UC Law Review Blog, Maggie Traubert explores how U.S. labor and immigration laws create a structural paradox in agriculture, relying on migrant farmworkers while denying them meaningful legal protections. The Article argues that this system of vulnerability is not economically inevitable but rather legally constructed and calls for reforms that align worker protections with their essential role in the nation’s food system.
Mofe Koya discusses the history of citizenship and naturalization in the United States. She first examines the constitutional framework behind the right to birthright citizenship, then explores how naturalization in the early twentieth century became a tool for defining and excluding who could belong in America, a pattern that may be reemerging as the impending review of Barbara v. Trump approaches the Supreme Court. Finally, she argues that the Court must reaffirm citizenship as a fixed constitutional guarantee rather than a political construct subject to shifting social or governmental priorities.
Emmy Blane analyzes the federal government’s consideration of apparent race or ethnicity in immigration investigations under the Equal Protection framework established in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College (“SFFA”). This Article contends that the government’s race-based decision-making in immigration enforcement does not satisfy the SFFA standards and, therefore, is unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
In this article, Kiera Burns analyzes the detention of asylum-seekers and refugees globally, with a specific focus on legal policies in Australia and the United States. She discusses human rights violations and alternatives to wrongful detention practices.
In this article, Abigail Adu discusses how a loophole in U.S. Immigration Law enables the human trafficking of minors through forced marriage. In addressing how this loophole subjects thousands of minors to slavery-like practices, Adu discusses how the U.S. government can institute reform to stop human trafficking and end child marriage.
Kiera Burns discusses the right to family life and family unity amid situations of armed conflict and immigration policies. She makes further analysis of solutions to the family unit crisis following a human rights-based approach.
Business Manager Mallory Perazzo explains how countries, including the United States and Greece, have used the COVID-19 pandemic as pretext for denying immigrants human rights at the border.
"Legal Gavel" by Blogtrepreneur is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Blythe McGregor, Associate Member, University of Cincinnati Law Review I. Introduction Imagine receiving notification that an immigration judge has ordered your removal to a country where you have not resided for over two decades. The government amended the factual allegations against you, and you were... Continue Reading →
Author: Brooke Logsdon, Associate Member, University of Cincinnati Law Review The recent death of Justice Antonin Scalia has both political parties upset, as both parties want control in appointing the new Justice to replace him. Until Justice Scalia’s seat can be filled, the politically divided Supreme Court risks a 4-4 tie on almost all major... Continue Reading →
